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REVERSIBLE GOAT.

Patented Apr. 27, 1886.

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J. LOEWENTHAL.

REVERSIBLE GOAT. No. 340,885. Patented Apr. 27, 1886 N. PETERS. Pmwmhe mher. washinglon D16.

UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH LOFAVENTHAL, OF NEXVARK, NE\V JERSEY.

REVERSiBLECOAT.

FBPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,885, dated April27, 1886.

Application filed July 2, 1885. Serial No. 170,100. (No model.)

To CLZZ whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, Josnrrr LonwnNTHAL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Coats and like Garments;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertai as to make and use the same, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference mark edthereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to adapt a coat or other similar garmentto be used with propriety either as a dresscoat or for working purposes,and to furnish a double garment of equal elegance of fit and make onboth sides.

The invention consists in the arrangements and combinations ot'parts,substantially as will be hereii'iafter set forth, and finally embodiedin the clauses of the claims.

Referring to the two sheets of drawings, in which like letters indicatecorresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1, Sheet 1,is a perspective view of the improved garment. Fig. 2 is a sectionthereof taken on line at through the. pocket. Fig. 3 is a sectionthrough line 1 Fig. 4'. is a section on line through theseam joining thesleeve to the body of the garment. Fig. 4" is the same section, showing,however, the thicknesses of cloth in position for-sewing. Fig. 5 is asection through lines a and s. Fig. (3 is a plan of the fly of thegarment, showing an arrangement of buttons and buttoirholcs. Fig. 7 is asection thereof through line in. Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate modificationsin the construction of said fly; Fig. 10, Sheet 2, is a plan of apattern of or one of a series of front pieces of the coat. Fig. 11 is aplan of a pattern of or one of a series of back pieces, the front andback pieces forming the body of the coat. Fig. 12 is a plan ofa patternof or one of a series of front sleevepieces. Fig. 13 is a plan of apattern of or one of a series of back sleeve-pieces, and Fig. 14 is aplan of a pattern of or one of a. series of collar-pieces.

In carrying out the invention, I p rovide four front pieces, 0, Figs. 1and 10. These in the completed coat lie in pairs on each side of theusual center opening down the front of the coat upper sleeve-pieces, 6,under sleevepieces, f,

and collar-pieces g, which lie in pairs in their respective positions inthe coat, the individual pieces of the pairs being alike in cut andsize. When said parts are sewed together and form a completed garment,the seams of one layer or portion of the garment lie over or parallelwith those of the other layer of said garment, and by this constructionthe smoothness and set of the outer layer will not be effected by seamsof theinner or under layer crossing the unseamcd portion of the cloththereof, as will be understood.

In forming the coat I cut pocket openings or entrances in the frontpieces, G O, which lie in the same relative positions in both of thelayers, and sew with a plain seam welts g 1 to the lower edges of saidopenings. I then arrange between the layers or thicknesses, in properposition, stays in m, which extend from points beneath the ends of thewelts gto the edge of the coat in one direction and to the arm or sleevescam in the other, and thus prevent the pockets from sagging. (See Figs.1 and 10.) After sewing the welts to the edge of the opening andpressing the scam I arrange the siliciaor other pocket material in placeatihc side of one of the wells, Fig. 2,

join the upper edge of said welt, as at n, to

one edge of the pocket material by suitable stitching, then stitch, byasecond line of stitclr ing, the body material, the welt, and the pocketmaterial together, as shown at It is evident that by turning the coat asdescribed the half-finished pocket will meet the halffinished welt.These are finished in the manner set forth in describing the firstportion of the pocket, After completing this portion of the pocket wejoin the upper edges, 0 O, of the out or opening in the bodymaterial,which body material extends a short distance down into thepocket, forming a guide for the hand,

which prevents the hand from passing entire] y through the garment,instead of into the pocket. I then tack the ends of the welt to the bodyof the garment, the stitches passing entirely through the ends of boththe welts, the stays, the pocket material, and the body material, asindicated in Fig. 3, thus completing the pocket. I then double up thesilicia or pocket material and sew the edges thereof to form the pocket,leaving the upper portion, facing or lining the welt, loose. In likemanner I finish or partly finish the other pockets. I then join thedifferent parts of the bodypieces, the stitches that join the parts 0and d at the shoulder-seam t and at the sides on m not passing throughfrom side to side of the coat, which would cause the coat to draw whenturned, but only joining the inner thicknesses and the outer thickness,respectively,together, as shown in Fig. 5. The collar-pieces are joinedtogether and to the body portions in like manner. The thicknessesorlayersof the coat are next joined together at their outer edges, 71.,by first placing the said body-layers one exactly over the other andsewing the same all around, after which the coat is turned inside outthrough the unstitched portion at the armhole, after which the edge isfinished by stitching.

After finishing the pockets, the sleevesections are prepared to beattached to the coat, as follows: The upper and under sections of onelayer of the sleeves are sewed together at both seams. In the otherlayer the sections are sewed at the elbow-seam only. The sleeves arethen placed to the body in the ordinary manner and sewed entirelythrough the four thicknesses, as in Fig. at after which the re mainingsleeve-seam is sewed. Theinner and outer layers of the sleeve are thenbrought together, as in Fig. 4, so that the rough edges are concealed;and, finally, the lower end edges of said sleeve are turned in a regularseams width. and stitched together in harmony with the other edges ofthe coat.

I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to all the exactoperations herein de tailed, Thus constructed, the coat can be turnedand used with either side out without anydanger of the layers drawing orwrinkling or otherwise becoming unsightly, and at the same time the coatis better adapted to resist wear than other reversible or double coats,and, because of the uniformity of many of the pieces,the labor ofcutting the parts is greatly reduced, as they may be cut by oneoperation.

I also provide a concealed or invisible fly, which enables me to usebuttons on both sides of the garment, and to conceal one or both ofthem. As already stated, this fly is shown in Figs. (3, 7, 8, and 9. Inthese figures, q represents the invisible fly having the buttons q q,and p p show the thickness of goods on each side, through which thebutton-holes are worked. As shown, one button, g, is placed on one sideof the piece q and one upon the other. These buttons may be offset fromeach other on a horizontal line, as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, or on avertical line, as shown in Fig. 8; or they may lie back to back, asshown in Fig. 9, in which latter case they sustain each other, and thepull or strain upon one in one direction is overcome by the pull orstrain upon the other in the opposite direction as the coat is reversed.By means of this invisible fly, when the coat is reversed from one sideto the other, one or the other of the buttons may be placed inside ofthe thick ness of coat goods, and concealed as desired, while thebutton-hole, thus left free for use, may be employed in engaging theexposed button on the opposite lappel of the coat.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure byLetters Patent is 1. In a double jacket or coat, the combination ofouter and inner sections or portions, the corresponding sections on eachside being of the same size and shape andmatching each other, and edgestitches and armpit-stitches uniting both the inner and outer sectionsor portions at these points, substantially as set forth.

2. A double garment made of outer and inner sections, the correspondingsections on both sides being of the same size and shape, and providedwith pockets secured to the corresponding sections of both sides, withfacings on both sides and welts tacked through both sections orthicknesses of the garment,where by the pocket is equally accessiblefrom either side and will draw equally upon both sides.

3. A coat or jacket having a concealed fly, as described, securedbetweenv the opposite sides or facings thereof, and provided with abutton on each side of the fly and a buttonhole in each side or facing,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a double garment having pockets lying between the two thicknessesof goods and having facings on both sides, the combination, with saidthicknesses of goods and with said pockets and facings, of thestay-pieces m m, united to the corners of the pockets and extendingbetween the thicknesses of goods to the edges andarmpits, respectively,and united thercat, so that the strain of pockets shall come upon thesepoints and prevent the bag giug of the garment.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this30th day of June, 1885.

i J OSEPH LOElVENTHAL.

Vituesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, B. L. McNULTY.

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